Podcasting interviews with iChat and Garageband -tips and then questions-

Okay, I did a search before I asked this and there have been a few scattered topics on it. Some answered my question(s) some didn't so hopefully I can consolidate some of the qestions here and tell about my own experience. This is long so be prepared:
Here are the Apple Articles on doing this:
ichat- (number of voice chats total, and specs to do it)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/
garageband- (number of real tracks it can take, up to 8)
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/features/recording.html
garageband- (how it records the chat(s) http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/features/ichatrecording.html
So... after finding this out I found myself in an Apple store and was able to get 2 20-inch iMac Core Duo 2's to do an audio chat and when I opened garageband and hit "new track" it AUTOMATICALLY popped up two tracks, one for each speaker (or chat), myself and my friend, on the other 20 inch. On my friends iMac, he hit "new podcast track" and the same thing happened for him, 2 tracks, 2 speakers (or chats, if you will) Now there was a bit of a feedback loop because we were right next to each other, but just by doing it in the store we proved to ourselves it could be done. Also we used the Bonjour sharing rather then logging-in with our AIM or .Mac accounts in iChat.
Fast forward to last night, while on iChat using my AIM account (NOT.mac) I contacted a friend about trying this. He was on a PC with AIM and a mic. I invited him 4 times and the invite never worked, it timed out or was not accepted. We both chacked out anti-virus and firewall setting (him anti-virus, me firewall) and still got nothing, but we did find a support article on it- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208 .
Then HE sent the invite and it worked. Great, we were chatting no problem. So I open Garageband and tried to record. Only one chat track. It has both of our voices, but only one track. Tried, new track, new basic track, new podcast track, and they were all the same. They were also all chosen with the "real instrument" choice because of the input from the mic.
Now this is my set-up. For audio "in" I have a logitech USB mic going into a USB Griffin PowerWave. The PowerWave also controls my "Out" to which I have 2 crappy external speakers that I picked up free from a friend.
The reason I am using a PowerWave for "in and out" is because A- I record a lot of vinyl and analog sources into my computer and the PowerWave has the best input/output solution short of getting any M-Audio products which I'm too broke to get. And B- my Apple Pro Speakers had the prong on the jack snap off in the speaker audio out jack, leaving me with only headphones for audio out. (with the prong stuck in the speaker jack the computer will think the speakers are still plugged in and won't play via "built in audio", but anything plugged into the headphone jack will over-ride that.) The Griffin PowerWave is connected via USB and works right around all of that.
Now I do have 2 choices for "Audio in" in my sys prefs. one is the PowerWave (which I choose when recording a source like a stereo or record player) and one is the Logitech mic. I choose the logitech mic (even though it's connected to and playing THROUGH the PowerWave (the PowerWave also has USB "in") it still reads as a seperate input source. For "Out" I have built-in, and the PowerWave, I choose the PowerWave cause thats where my external speakers are connected.
So I was able to do the chat, but NOT get multiple tracks for multiple chats to work.
Here is my system configuration as well as audio configuration.
Dual 800 MGHZ G4 quicksilver.
896 Ram
Cable Modem Connection (comcast)
OS X- 10.4.8
GB- 3.0.4 (104.7)
iChat- 3.1.5 (v436)
IN-
Logitech USB Mic- connected via "USB in" to Griffin PowerWave
Griffin PowerWave- connected via USB to G4
OUT-
Griffin PowerWave- connected via USB
External Speakers- connected to "audio OUT" on Griffin PowerWave
For anyone who doesn't know what a Griffin PowerWave is here is a link:
http://www.welovemacs.com/3254pwrw.html
It's a BIG Step up from a iMic in terms of availible connectivity both in and out. It's about 3 years old and Griffin does not make them anymore. Most people now are using USB 2.0 or Firewire audio boxes to get multiple input and oputput connections for the Mac and various instruments.
So after all that, my question is, what could I be doing wrong? The Apple article(s) mention nothing about internal or external Mics. Is it my settings? Is it because it was done in AIM and iChat, not just 2 macs and iChat like the experiment in the store? I think I've done everything right, but still only ONE chat track somes up. Also I have done chats in Skype, as well as Ventrillo (while gaming) with this set up, so I know it works, I'm just trying to figure out how to get the multiple chat tracks. Please give me some advice. Thanks in advance.
Keith M

Alrighty-
I just got off the phone with Apple support. With their tech I was able to find that this DOES work with my set-up.
While I was using iChat and my AIM account, the tech and I were able to have an audio chat and have garageband record it using HIS (the tech) .mac account as well as his AIM account.
What we seemed to find out that if I want to record it, I have to be the one that initiates the chat. (which is why my friend sending the invite didn't let it work and it was recording it as one track.)
If I send the invite and the other party accepts it, I then opened Garageband, started a standard "new project" (deleated the defualt grand piano track) then chose "new track" with "real instrument" and the following message came up- "garageband is detecting and active ichat, do you want to record that chat"(paraphrased): I chose "yes" and away we went recording the chat with one track for each participant.
Not sure how many folks I can add into the chat, nor don't know if it will add new tracks on the fly. Probably not. But at least I got it working, I know it does work with AOL and .mac accounts, I guess it might have been some network issues in terms of my PC friend's anti-virus or firewall settings, or the network itself.
Anyway, keep adding to this if you want, and keep it as a resource for more people, but this does work (for now) and if ther are any more revelations about (number of participants, etc) it I'll follow up here.

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